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FSF seeks full-time senior GNU/Linux systems administrator

"The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded GNU/Linux systems
administrator who enjoys learning and problem-solving. (S)he will be
familiar with the free software community and how it works, and will
be more interested in making a substantial contribution to software
freedom and having employment consistent with ethical ideals than
obtaining the highest salary."

Warn people about YouTube Rentals

YouTube has been recently trying to push their rental service which
brings full-length independent movies to YouTube. The new service
comes with Digital Restrictions Management that severely limits how
videos can be used, prohibiting uses that even US copyright law
allows.

We are calling on everyone to join us in refusing to buy YouTube
Rentals.

Help subtitle FSF videos!

Richard Stallman's speeches and the Free Software Foundation's other
videos have brought free software philosophy to many computer users.
Stallman has given speeches in Spanish and French in addition to
English, but even more could be done to bring these videos to speakers
of other languages -- and to the hearing-impaired community.

We are happy to announce the new community effort to subtitle videos
and to translate them on Universal Subtitles. Please volunteer some
time to help make the philosophy and history behind the free software
movement accessible to whole new communities!

Thank 'This American Life' and ask them to set an example

The publicly funded radio show 'This American Life' recently ran an
hour-long story "When Patents Attack!", which highlighted how patent
litigation and threats hamper software development. Their work in
creating public awareness of this topic is laudable, but we are asking
them to go one step further and to begin distributing their radio show
in Ogg Vorbis format so that people are not required to follow MP3
patent terms in order to listen.

Richard Stallman writes: How Web servers can mistreat their users

"The World Wide Web, developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 as a system
for publishing and viewing information, is slowly being transformed
into a system of remote computing. It will store your data, and data
about you, often limiting your access to it but allowing the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) access at any time. It will do your
computing for you, but you cannot control what it does. It provides
various tempting attractions, but you must resist them."

Welcoming our summer interns

This summer, the FSF welcomed four eager interns, whom we are excited
to be working with: Bob Call and Jonathan Nadeau are working alongside
our campaigns managers; Martin Dluhos is working will with our system
administration team; and, William Theaker is working with Brett Smith
in the Licensing and Compliance Lab.

Each one of them wrote an introduction highlighting their backgrounds
and plans for this summer.

The Free Game Lag

We published an essay, which Danny Piccirillo wrote for our Fall 2010
Bulletin, that highlights the difficulties facing free software
games:

The business models for production simply need to change, and just
like they have for other software, they will for gaming as
well. When people ask you how gaming as we know it can exist in a
free software world, you should open your response with, "It
can't, but it can be better."

Interview with MusicBrainz developer Kuno Woudt

We published an interview that our campaigns manager, Matt Lee, did
with Kuno Woudt of MusicBrainz at FSCONS 2010. The interview was also
originally published in the Fall 2010 issue of the FSF Bulletin.

Take action with the FSF

Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's
work. You can contribute by joining at http://www.fsf.org/join. If
you're already a member, you can help refer new members (and earn some
rewards) by adding a line with your member number to your email
signature like:

The FSF is also always looking for volunteers
(http://www.fsf.org/volunteer). From rabble-rousing to hacking, from
issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's something here for
everybody to do. Also, head over to our campaign section
(http://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and take action on software patents,
DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and more.

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